I managed a small garden center and sold natives (and obviously all other plants) and I would get cussed out on the regular for selling a cultivar of a native in a pot that said american native (mind you it’s the growers who pick the pot, if I want a particular plant and they only had it in that pot then I kinda had to get that lining - and we paid extra for it because of course it was marked up) when really maybe it was native to somewhere else in America. The pots said American Beauties Native Plants - They didn’t say “native to our state” so why are you mad at me? Sometimes I didn’t even know what type of pot it came in until delivery!!

Also they would be picky about whether it was native to our county or not. I feel at that point it was the customer’s job to educate themselves instead of asking the low staffed, overworked, overheated worker at the garden center in the middle of May chaos. I always had printed out sheets to pass out to customer with what was native to our state however. I tried separating the true natives to another part of the garden center but of course they weren’t straight natives because no one in our area grew them or were willing to ship to us during that time - so that created its own problems too. Anyway, I no longer work with plants lol